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Not one, but two tombs of Egyptian pharaohs discovered:
2025 has already proven to be landmark year in Egyptology. First, in February, a team of British and Egyptian archaeologists found the tomb of Thutmose II, which was the only royal tomb of the 18th dynasty that had yet to be discovered. (Thutmose was the half-brother and husband of Queen Hatshepsut, one of Egypt’s most powerful female rulers.) It was also the first time that a British research team discovered a pharaoh’s tomb since Tutankhamun.
The tomb is located in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis near the city of Luxor. The mummy of Thutmose II was actually found in 1881 in what is now called the Royal Cache, or the Deir el-Bahari cache—a separate site in which many royal mummies were interred during the 21st dynasty, as their original tombs underwent restorations. (Even in…